Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. Carlton Road Academy is the nearest published school at 600 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PE21 8HS
Fenside · Boston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fenside
- Local authority
- Boston
- Constituency
- Boston and Skegness
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PE21 8HS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- PE
- Postcode district
- PE21
- Postcode sector
- PE21 8
- Latitude
- 52.982452
- Longitude
- -0.040630
- British National Grid easting
- 531,641
- British National Grid northing
- 344,583
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Boston · E07000136
- Electoral ward
- Fenside · E05009622
- Parish or community
- E43000109
- Westminster constituency
- Boston and Skegness · E14001114
- Output area
- E00131989
- Lower layer super output area
- Boston 002F · E01034679
- Middle layer super output area
- Boston 002 · E02005418
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore PE21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 600 m
Carlton Road Academy
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- 819 m
Park Academy
Academy converter
- 925 m
Boston West Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,707
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,324
- Anti social behaviour 588
- Shoplifting 506
- Criminal damage and arson 289
- Other theft 186
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PE21 8 residents
- 13,679
Age bands in PE21 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.7%
2,684 residents
1,600 residents
4,232 residents
3,356 residents
1,891 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
THE SIDINGS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SLEAFORD ROAD, BOSTON, PE21 8EG
ODS code C83060
868 m
PARKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
TAWNEY STREET, BOSTON, PE21 6PF
ODS code C83010
1.3 km
LIQUORPOND SURGERY
10 LIQUORPOND STREET, BOSTON, PE21 8UE
ODS code C83004
1.4 km
GREYFRIARS SURGERY
SOUTH SQUARE, BOSTON, PE21 6JU
ODS code C83059
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sunningdale Drive
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Sunningdale Drive
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Argyle Street Co-op Store
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Argyle Street Co-op Store
BCT · Boston
- 0.1 miles
Granville Street
BCT · Boston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Boston 002F, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,235 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,707 published events cover 12 months, averaging 308.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,324 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.